Dream Rite

Dream Rite is a response to the outcry of students from impoverished homes who often make it to school barefooted and too exhausted to start a typical school day like other kids. We see vivid images of students wearing tattered school uniforms with holes at the back of their pants (trouser as Nigerians call it), and school sandals with shoe soles almost invisible due to absolute wear. Some of us have been there before.

We see school age children street-selling meager commodities that will never be sufficient to feed them, not to mention provide money for their educational needs. We see homes where families cannot afford one-single meal a day and children are forced into petty labor or shipped across the country to serve as somebody’s housemaid without any recourse for the future ramifications of such decision on that child. We see naturally talented children, whose gifted hands are only awaiting the opportunity for expression, patiently waiting for the stage that will lift them from mediocrity unto limelight.